Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Mark 8:1-5
by: Jo Anne Kandel.
This passage illustrates the wide gulf between the broad, divine understanding of Jesus and the narrow, human ideas of the disciples. Jesus, as usual, focused on the needs of the people as he realized that they had been with him for three days and were very hungry! Jesus also knew that his Father could make provision for any need. In contrast, the disciples forgot the Old Testament story of how the children of Israel were fed manna in the wilderness, and focused only on the limits of their meager resources. Clearly they had yet to grasp that Jesus was the powerful Son of God.